The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-21
SIZE LOVED AND LOVED.
How Young I.sdy Got Lovers, and How

How Young lady Got Lovers, and How
'.o.s She Tried to Shake Them.
DETROIT. Mich Jan. 10.-Theda shu.
bic, Of Rollins, Mich, is only 10 years Of
age. " Her parents arc wealthy, but iguor.
ant French.swiss people. The4a ia tall
and well'iormed. with dark hair and eyes
which epsrkle while she talks. sho has
the added charm OF an excellent Ameri.
.ican and European EDUCATION sud polite,
manners, 6luus Thsda left sohool sbo has
been wild but not q last girl. She has a
loving disposition and has managed to,
gratify it pretty well Of late.o A year ago.
when she was but is, Theda opened cor.
respondeEce with 9 lew York man whom
she had never Seen and BECAME engaged
to him, 9 =,
{ shs finally went to New York to marry
nun UNKNOWN to her paIents.l5 The! !fsl-
low pictured himself as q poeaessor Of the
attractions most pleaainR 10 susceptible
young lady. When abe reached there
her attlanced proved to be 9 msa with
hueny fel taif, pug nose, tangled,
dirty white mouslac che and OF generally
diareputable appearance. She just took
ono !ooE ct him, ,aever said word and
headed Tor home. The fellow and an ar
complics followed her as far as Fremont.
O., where she left the train to avoid him'
William A. Bordeaux, CT Detroit, q do.
teotive IN the service Of the Grand Trunk
Hallway, was on the train. When the
New Yorker and his friend became too
obnoxious Bordeaux interfered and re-
ceived Theda's thanks. This escanade
sobeTea the young WOMAN isr = u:na. Her
bright eyes haunted Hordeaux, and after
thinking the whole matter over he con-
cluded to ask for her hand in marriage.
He was remembered gratefully by Theda,
and when he asked for her hand she con.
sentsd, The parents we're delighted and
arEangod to settle $4,000 on Bordeaux as
soon as the event came Of. ~,
Bordeaux's gooti luck excited tho en- wv
OF various men. One, jackson man.
made, up; his mind to feather his own nest,
and there also suddenly came about the
girl swarm Of suitora. Last November,
when Mr.. Snd Mrs. stubli were III Europe.
Bordeaux went to Rollins to zee his affi.
anced wife. He found that Theda had
discharged the old hired man and given
his place To the jackson admiyey. She
told Boraeaux she didn't propose to marry
him, and he st once cabled the parents.
They took the fret chip for home and Ar.
lived last Friday. They insisted upon
Theda marrying Bordeaux at once. She
refused and they Imprisoned hor in the
house: taking away nearly all Of her
On Sunday night Theda leapad from the
second story window into the snow and
fled across the country. On Sunday night,
almost troxen and completely exhausted,
she applied at farm house for assistance.
On 1ueaday she continued her, way to
Adrian, whero she WAS arrested. The
prosecuting attorney! refused to allow her
to go to Jail, and took her to his own
house and gave her in charge OF his wife.
The parents charged her with some
petty odense, in the hopes Of hayinc her
remanded to their care and compelling her
to marry Bordeaux. Theda turned the
tables on them to-day by swearing out q
warrant for their arrest for cruelty. She
also Bwore that she would never marry
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